Infants' use of shared linguistic information to clarify ambiguous requests

Child Development

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 493-502

  Ganea, Patricia A ^a   Saylor, Megan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; SEMANTICS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33947532177     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01011.x     Document Type: Article

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